Your controversial opinions

[BorealRookidee]

Leech Life needed a buff but 80 base power is too much. An hp-draining move available to that many pokemon shouldn't be so strong.

It's balanced out by the sheer number of Pokemon that resist Bug. Although 80 is only 5 more base power than Drain Punch, which is a much more widespread move.

 

[Bolt Strike]

It's balanced out by the sheer number of Pokemon that resist Bug. Although 80 is only 5 more base power than Drain Punch, which is a much more widespread move.

Plus Fighting has much more favorable type matchups than Bug.

 

[Sheep40]

The damage from status effects and entry hazards should reflect the type accordingly. EG ghost or rock type would take less damage from poison or burn, flying types would be immune to spikes, etc.

 

[Dr. Gro 3001]

@Sheep40 Would that suggest that Poison types would be poisoned from Poison moves and Toxic Spikes but would take less damage from the Poison damage? Also, would that also suggest that Poison types can no longer clear Toxic Spikes by entering the battlefiled?

 

[Sheep40]

@Sheep40 Would that suggest that Poison types would be poisoned from Poison moves and Toxic Spikes but would take less damage from the Poison damage? Also, would that also suggest that Poison types can no longer clear Toxic Spikes by entering the battlefiled?

That's more of a problem borne out of not having little updates to the type chart every so often.

I did propose heavy alterations to the normal type and making it so that way the type only ever had super-effective, ineffective, or immune reactions with all other types as a method of teaching the legendary complexity of the type system.

 

[Inland_Taipan]

Oh, and Ultra Beasts have some of the best shinies of any 'mon in the franchise (i.e. Naganadel and Guzzlord, etc.).

 

[Ransei]

Dex entries should not be dismissed just because they're dex entries, especially when plenty are proven true in some way (ex: Rayquaza, Volcanion, Giratina) and others are perfectly reasonable under the Pokémon's concept or abilities proven in media (ex: Lugia, Zoroark, Black Kyurem/White Kyurem). Not every dex entry is true. Victini's a main example, but it's easy to see why people ingame thought whoever had it always won since it's able to provide excessive amounts of energy to its allies). Despite this, but a lot of dex entries are, especially when it comes to legendaries and mythicals.

We should only assume a dex entry is false if it has proven to not be true to the series in some way, shape, or forme. Dex entries such as Magcargo, Lanturn, and Gardevoir's tend to be confusing because the laws of physics in Pokémon were never intended to fully match the laws of physics in real life. Theoretically impossible situations such as humans traveling through a dimension of antimatter or little girls hugging literal magma and being perfectly fine afterwards happens all the time in this series. Pokémon like Calyrex have also been officially stated to perform acts that defy real world laws of physics.

Maybe in Pokémon Lanturn lighting up the surface of the sea from three miles deep does not cause universal destruction in Pokémon. Maybe Gardevoir's black holes don't destroy the planet. Dark-type Z-Moves create black holes anyway.

Maybe somebody escaped their universe on a Lunala while Yveltal was "on its deathbed", then came back to see a perfectly healthy Yveltal but every non-deity life forme dead.

My point is that dex entries aren't black or white. Many of then are certainly true, and reasonable enough to rely on for the description of a Pokémon.